White Sugar Cookies
mardibug · nigella.com · Serves: 12
Against 513 sugar cookie recipes
Less fat than 97% of recipes and more leavening than 97%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 513 sugar cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 97% of recipes: 30% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%, about half as much.
- More leavening than 97% of recipes: 4.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 3 times as much.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 cup shortening≈ 205 g
- 2 cups granulated sugar≈ 400 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract≈ 13 g
- 5 teaspoons baking powder≈ 23 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ¼ teaspoon fresh, grated nutmeg≈ 0.7 g
- 6 cups sifted cake flour≈ 684 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
flour 684 gbatter 1681 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 513 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat30% · 2nd percentile · median 61%
- Sugar59% · 42nd percentile · median 64%
- Egg15% · 34th percentile · median 18%
- Leavening4.2% · 98th percentile · median 1.3%
- Salt0.9% · 67th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 11 minutes
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